SPOTLIGHT

Fearing New Atomic Arms Race, First Committee Delegates Call for International Law to Settle Missile Treaty Dispute between Nuclear‑Weapon States

Occasional Paper No. 32, October 2018 – The Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons on the Dark Web: A Study

Possessing Atomic Bomb ‘Shameful as Depending on Chemical, Biological Weapon’, First Committee Hears, while Nuclear-Weapon States Defend Deterrence Policies

First Committee Delegates Call for Lowering Nuclear Risks, Urging Possessor States to Swiftly De-alert Atomic Bombs and Stop Procrastinating on Promises

HR Nakamitsu’s remarks at Nuclear Discussion Forum on “Consolidating and Enhancing Cooperation among Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zones”

Spanning 116 States, World’s Five Nuclear Weapon Free Zones Must Use Political Capital to Advance Common Disarmament Goals, Speakers Tell First Committee

HR Nakamitsu’s remarks on the “Current state of affairs in the field of disarmament and arms control”

ODA Report on Programmes Financed from Voluntary Contributions (2017-2018)

DISARMAMENT IN THE NEWS

Imaging drones to spot signs of explosive chemicals leaking from landmines

UNFOLD ZERO interviews UN General Assembly President

Project to connect American youth with Atomic Bomb survivors (Hibakusha) winding down

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Showing Hiroshima’s Reality

FEATURED CONTENT

First Committee of the Seventy-Third Session of the General Assembly

International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons

Securing Our Common Future: An Agenda for Disarmament

Disarmament Education

UNODA UPDATE

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The Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons on the Dark Web: A Study

Consolidating and Enhancing Cooperation among Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zones

Considering the Moral Dimensions of Nuclear Weapons in a Multi-Faith Dialogue to “Safeguard Future Generations”

Retaining Meaningful Human Control of Weapons Systems

The Hague Code of Conduct: Tools and challenges to address ballistic missile proliferation today

ANNOUNCEMENTS

(Information for delegations) preliminary information for participants at the Third Review Conference of the Programme of Action on small arms and light weapons

High-level international conference on nuclear disarmament and its organizational meeting postponed

Notes Verbale requesting views of Member States for disarmament-related reports mandated by the General Assembly

Information for States parties, observer States and IGOs attending the Preparatory Committee for the 2020 Review Conference of the NPT

Information for NGOs attending next Preparatory Committee for the 2020 Review Conference of the NPT

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